Wednesday, July 18, 2018

On time (again?)

//This is a response to a comment, so there are some elements of broken record to be found.

I'm inclined to think there is no time per se; there's only movement of objects in relation to movement of other objects i.e. if nothing moves, you can't perceive "time" and if something moves, you can't say when the movement started, how long it lasted and how much "time" has passed after the movement ended - unless you have another object that moves, which serves as a reference point (like a sphere that rotates around its axis,) so you can compare it to the movement of the first object. And you'll probably need a "stationary" object as well.

Anyway, there is no time, it's always now, and things just move, or rather: change. On that note: have you ever noticed that nothing is really the same ever again? Like when people say "Things aren't like they used to be.." like there ever was a stationary era, "The good old days", when things were used to be something, not noticing that nothing is ever like they used to be. Things are always progressing, moving, growing and changing.

Every moment, every situation, every person you ever come by is unique at that point in "time" you encounter them, a one time deal, even if you encounter them "again". Yet our minds like to generalize and categorize things, making things seem the "same" and we treat them as such: with less value.

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